If the Earth's climate continues to warms up, the environment will gradually change in its appearance. One specific change that has already started happening is that the water levels are rising. This is happening because the air is warming up which is melting the ice and forcing the water to rise. According to a report done by the IPCC sea levels have risen by 10 to 25 centimeters over the last 100 years. If this trend continues, the water will become higher than the land and we will start to lose land mass which will force everyone to move further inland.
The rising of sea levels is a definite threat to societies on the coast and especially islands. Do you think that the rising sea levels are to blame for more frequent hurricanes and tsunami's?
ReplyDeleteI think that it does. I mean there have been more large storms since all this talk of global warming came around.
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